By Aimee Gabay An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s ...

When We Sold God’s Eye’ by Alex Cuadros is an unsentimental, vital report of how ‘civilised’ society disrupts Indigenous life ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

“When they say that the indigenous people are occupying 14% of the national ... indigenous territories was a necessity to preserve the Amazon. Lula made those remarks at the 52nd Assembly ...

Journalist Alex Cuadros’s latest book, “When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon” tells ...

Ninety-five percent of deforestation in the Amazon has occurred within 3.4 miles of a road, according to a landmark 2014 ...

We have so many dreams of being able to do so many different things — of not just fighting to exist. - Vanda Witoto ...

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on ...

It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River ... to represent a people determined not to be erased,” said Mura, the tribal leader. Indigenous leader ...